Beyond Negativity: The Effects of Incivility on the Electorate

By D. J. Brooks, J. Geer. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Online Political Discourse: Exploring Differences in Effects of Civil and Uncivil Disagreement in News Website Comments (2017, background): “Early evidence suggests incivility may spark political participation (Borah, 2014; Brooks & Geer, 2007).”
Social Media, Science, and Attack Discourse: How Twitter Discussions of Climate Change Use Sarcasm and Incivility (2017, background): “Online Incivility Scholars have defined incivility as an explicit attack that goes beyond impoliteness or the heated debate that is beneficial to fostering democratic discourse (Brooks & Geer, 2007; Papacharissi, 2004).”
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: How Fact-Checking Influences Citizens’ Reactions to Negative Advertising (2015, background): “We know from a growing literature on campaigning that negative advertisements vary in their tone; some negative messages are delivered in an uncivil manner, while other negative commercials utilize a less contentious tone (Brooks & Geer, 2007; Mutz & Reeves, 2005).”
Effects of Civility and Reasoning in User Comments on Perceived Journalistic Quality (2018, background): “For example, in studies of candidate’s statements in political debates, Mutz and Reeves (2005) found that incivility lowers trust in the government, while Brooks and Geer (2007) found that incivility leads recipients to perceive the statements as less fair, less informative, and less important.”
Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face-to-face Surveys in the Domain of Race and Social Inequality Attitudes (2015, background): “…Sociological Review (e.g., Schwartz and Schuman 2005; Rosenfeld and Thomas 2012), the American Journal of Political Science (e.g., Prior 2005; Brooks and Geer 2007; Jerit 2009; Ansolabehere and Jones 2010), and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (e.g., Skitka et al. 2002;…”
What is political incivility? (2016, background): “(2014), experimentalists Brooks and Geer (2007) also honed in on name calling and insulting language as key”
A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets? The Consequences of Citizens’ Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting with Party Candidates (2016, background): “Moreover, incivility in online exchanges makes participants perceive uncivil statements as less fair, informative and credible (Brooks and Geer, 2007; Ng and Detenberg, 2005) (But see the study by Thorson and colleagues (Thorson et al.”
Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility (2010, methodology): “To produce the civility=incivility conditions, we manipulated whether the blogger’s commentary included civil or uncivil references to the other side of the debate (Brooks & Geer, 2007).”
Living in an age of online incivility: examining the conditional indirect effects of online discussion on political flaming (2014, background): “Incivility moves beyond simple criticism by ‘adding inflammatory comments that add little in the way of substance to the discussion’ (Brooks & Geer, 2007, p. 5).”
Personal and Public Levels of Political Incivility (2017, background): “Studies of political incivility apply similar definitions to research the effects of observing political figures who violate politeness norms (e.g., Brooks & Geer, 2007; Mutz, 2015).”
Cross-Sample Comparisons and External Validity (2014, methodology): “Indeed, political scientists commonly rely on YouGov and the GfK Group – services that maintain large national subject pools of adults (e.g. Banks and Valentino 2012; Brooks and Geer 2007; Hopkins and King 2010).”